As an Aacdemy we endeavour create an environment in which students look forward to attending school and lessons and to provide sufficient staffing to work with students and families to improve levels of attendance and punctuality. We generate regular and accurate data for attendance and punctuality. This means that colleagues are able to readily access information, students can be praised / rewarded for their progress and achievements, parents and guardians can be quickly informed of issues, monitoring of individual students and groups is made easy, causes of absence and lateness and issues of equal opportunity can be identified and targets are set and reviewed for individual students, groups of students and The Academy.

In return we ask the following of our parents and students:

Parents

• Encourage students to leave home in plenty of time in the mornings
• Provide explanations for absences and inform The Academy if students are going to be late
• Try to make medical appointments outside the working day and to take holidays out of term time

Students

• Arrive on site by 8.25am
• Move purposefully between lessons and breaks
• Ensure parents provide a note explaining absence
• Be prepared to make up for time lost through absence and lateness
• Sign out at Reception when leaving site for appointments